MacGregor Collegiate Opens With Staffing Gaps and Split Grades
MacGregor Collegiate opens Tuesday September 1 with Miss Hampton and Mr Loewen supervising supplemental subjects. Three teachers still needed. Hampton considered for principal. High school adds a fifth room due to large Grade LX enrolment, Grade LX split into two classes. Elementary opens September 2 with seven teachers for eight classes. Grade One to be housed in Masonic Hall. exact grade assignments pending enrolment.
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MacGreger Collegiate
Miss Hampton
Loewen
L. B. Patterson
Thieves Take Safe From MacGregor Drug Store
A safe containing 290 dollars was stolen from Montgomery's Drug Store in MacGregor last Thursday night. Police say entry was gained by smashing a plate glass window at the front door and the RCMP at Carberry are investigating the break in.
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Montgomery
MacGregor
RCMP
Carberry
Miss Maureen Cooper Honored Shower Weekend
A Katrime Good Neighbors Club event at Community Hall honored Maureen Cooper before her September marriage to Gordon Tario. About eighty-five friends attended, presenting gladioli corsages, shower gifts, and notes of best wishes, with a noon luncheon and a guest book signing closing the evening. Winnipeg coworkers from the Sherbrooke Exchange also hosted a misc shower with a Sweetheart Roses corsage and toasts to Maureen’s future.
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Katrime Good Neighbors Club
Maureen Cooper
Gordon Tario
Maureen
Betty McLaughlin
Cooper
Mabel McLaughlin
Tario
Norma McLachlan
Marjorie Gilbert
Donateen McLachlan
Telephone Exchange
T. Eaton
Janice Duncan
Phyllis Gillespie
Good Neighbors
Beaver
Orangeville
Pathhead
MacGregor
Joan Grove
Joyce Clark
Audrey Smith
Ethel Duncan
Mary Gilbert
Lillian Gilbert
Phyllis Giercke
Florence Gilbert
Winnie Taylor
Springbrook 4-H Garden Club Displays at Brandon Fair
Springbrook 4-H Garden Club presented an educational display and a Garden Post demonstration at Brandon Fair. Dennis Lewis placed third in the Provincial Judging Competition. Five members won prizes at Portage la Prairie Fair, and Gilbert Sigurdson judged the club gardens with twelve members earning points across six members with 80 points, four with 80, and two with 70. The club funded a show er for a former president and aims to win the Shield again this year.
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Springbrook
Brandon Fair
Dennis Lewis
Portage la Prairie Fair
Gilbert Sigurdson
North Cypress Junior Farmers plan Royal Winter Fair trip
The August meeting at Carberry Municipal Hall, led by President Don Craig, arranged a eight day trip to the Toronto Royal Winter Fair in November. W Stonehouse co ordinates with the Agricultural Representative. trip includes lakehead Niagara Falls Guelph Vet College and time at the fair. Cost is 100 dollars for eight days with bus and hotel, limited to 35 seats. deposits later. Contact Welland Stonehouse at Carberry Ag Office.
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North Cypress
Carberry Municipal Hall
Don Craig
Toronto
Lake-Head
Niagara Falls
Veternary College
Guelph
Canada
Thorp Crawford
Neepawa
Welland Stonehouse
Carverry Agricultural Representaive
Ex-Mariner Walks Coast to Coast Across Canada to Vancouver
Italian immigrant Guy Macchia, formerly of Halifax and Toronto, continues a 4900 mile Atlantic to Pacific trek walking four to five miles per hour. He has covered about 3250 miles since May 1 and plans to reach Vancouver by September end. He travels light, camps or stays in YMCAs, and aims to write a book to help new immigrants, funding future ventures with pennants and daily costs around three dollars.
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Mac
Gregor
Macchia
Toronto
Vancouver
Ym.c.a
Port Arthur
Winnipeg
Portage la Prairie
MacGregor
Italy
Canada
Pacific Ocean
Austin
Boy Killed In Truck Collision West of Austin
A moving livestock truck struck a parked consigning truck on a sharp curve west of Austin. A 12 year old boy riding in the moving truck died. Ten cattle and eight pigs were killed and eighteen cows escaped. The parked truck’s driver was uninjured. the moving truck driver was seriously hurt.
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Austin
Esterhazy
Sask
Moose Jaw
New Officers Appointed for Central Aid Augusta Meeting
New officers for the 1959-60 term were appointed at the Augusta meeting of the Central Aid Society. President is Mrs Harmon, vice president Mrs Sid Hay, secretary Mrs E Chant, and treasurer to be named.
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Augusta
Central Aid
Harmon
Sid Hay
E. Chant
Hospital auxiliaries delegates plan pantry shower tea
Mrs Martinizzen and Mrs J Scora with Miss Kearney and others were appointed delegates to attend the Annual Hospital Auxiliaries convention on September 10 and 11. They will hold a pantry shower and silver tea on October 1 at the Hospital Grounds weather permitting.
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Martinnizin
M. McKelvy
Miss Kearney
Martinizzen
J. Scora
Harmon
Chant
Hospital Auxiliaries
William H Brown 81 Funeral in Carberry Anglican Church
Funeral services for William Henry Brown 81 who died August 16 at Brandon Nursing Home were held August 20 at 2 p m at St Agnes Anglican Church Carberry conducted by Rev B C Whitfield Born in Uxbridge Ontario he moved to Manitoba and farmed the Arizona district later retiring to Carberry He was a Loyal Orange Lodge member survived by his wife three daughters seven grandchildren and a sister Also noted were numerous relatives and friends attending from Winnipeg Portage la Prairie Carnegie and Neepawa Interment at Carberry Cemetery.
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William Henry Brown
Brandon
St. Agnes
Carberry
B. C. Whitfield
Uxbridge
Ontario
Manitoba
C.P.R
Arizona
Sidney
Elizabeth ‘ Stephenson
Loyal
Orange Lodge
Portage la Prairie
N. Stephenson
Carnegie
Charles Bee
Henderson
Horace Bee
Bill Bee
Neepawa
B. Bennett
W. Carswell
R. Jackson
H. Houghson
Roger Sharpley
Robert Stephenson
Harvey Dunton
W. R. Guthrie
J. C. Muirhead
David Muirhead
Mrs H A Emerslund Dies in Ganges Hospital B C
Mrs J A Emerslund age 62 nee Edna Elliott youngest daughter of Sam Elliott of Bagot died August 20 in Ganges Hospital B C She is survived by husband H A Emerslund one son Billie missing in World War II and one daughter Mrs H Le Blanc of Victoria BC Also surviving are brother T J Elliott Portage la Prairie and sisters Mrs John Kerr Portage la Prairie and Mrs George S Thompson Beaver Manitoba Funeral held Saturday at Ganges BC.
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J. A. Emerslund
Edna Elliott
Sam Elliott
Bagot
Ganges Hospital
B. C
H. A. Emerslund
Billie
H. le Blanc
Victoria
B.C
T. J. Elliott
Portage la Prairie
John Kerr
Mrs. C. J. Madill Dies in Ottawa Family Shock
Mrs. C J Madill of Ottawa died suddenly last week shocking her family. She had been in good health and was at MacGregor in the spring. Former Edmonton teacher for four years before marrying Dr C J Madill, she leaves a son, a daughter, and her husband. She was a sister-in-law of Mrs G S Booth of MacGregor.
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Mere
Harvest Delayed By Rain In Local Fields
Harvest operations slowed by heavy rain last week with downpours Wednesday and Saturday. Gardens flowers pastures flax and late grain benefited while swathing continued and good chances of full harvesting by Thursday or Friday pending further rain.
Banquet honors UN essay contest winners in Brandon
A Brandon Rotary Club luncheon at the Prince Edward Hotel saluted Arlene Johnstone of Port Arthur Ontario and Robert Pollock of Neepawa Manitoba for winning the United Nations high school essay contest. Winners receive a ten day all expenses paid trip to Ottawa and New York.
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Ottawa
New York
Arlene
A Darling
Robert
Eugene Moore
Brandon
Manitoba
John Paul Bondar
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